Radiation transducers

Ion and fission chambers are known as radiation transducers. These chambers are used in nuclear reactors for monitoring its operation. The idea involved here is sensing radio isotope tracer intensity. Radiation transducers are also used in industrial gauging and in industrial processes. Nuclear radiations cause ionization of the gases through which they pass. This is the basic idea involved in integrating and non-integrating devices. Integrating instruments are used to detect high level radiation and non-integrating devices for detecting low level radiation. Ion-chamber, compensated ion-chamber, fission chamber etc. are examples for integrating instruments. Geiger-Muller counter, proportional counter, scintillation counter etc. are examples for non-integrating instruments.